IVOA Server-side Operations for Data Access ivo://ivoa.net/std/SODA IVOA Bonnarel, F. Demleitner, M. Dowler, P. Tody, D. Dempsey, J. #### 1.0 IVOA Data Access Layer Working Group dal@ivoa.net Virtual observatory Data processing Data retrieval This document describes the Server-side Operations for Data Access (SODA) web service capability. SODA is a low-level data access capability or server side data processing that can act upon the data files, performing various kinds of operations: filtering/subsection, transformations, pixel operations, and applying functions to the data. http://ivoa.net/documents/SODA/ Other Research 1.0 sync-1.0 An endpoint for synchronous HTTP data access as described by version 1.0 of this specification. async-1.0 An endpoint for asynchronous, UWS-based data access as described by version 1.0 of this specification.